The paper deserves a fresh bookmark, however, because it appears to be one of the only resources available for lawyers as far as the to be alert to in relation to employees being posted to foreign countries.

"Tax Issues for Business Immigrants" is the title of a paper that Max Weder prepared for the Business Immigration - 2010 conference presented by the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia in October 2010. Mr. Weder is a lawyer at Davis LLP in Vancouver, BC.

In a post on March 11, 2009 I noted that the BC Government had introduced a labour mobility bill that would allow certified workers from other jurisdictions to practice their occupations in BC in accordance with Chapter Seven of the national Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT). The legislative session closed yesterday without the bill being passed and so, at least for now, this initiative is dead.

...allows certified workers from other jurisdictions to practise
their occupations in British Columbia in accordance with Chapter Seven
of the Agreement on Internal Trade, and, in particular, provides that
British Columbia regulators must consider and apply Chapter Seven when
workers who are certified for an occupation in a signatory jurisdiction
apply to obtain British Columbia certification for that occupation. It
allows the Supreme Court to consider whether Chapter Seven has been
correctly applied and to make directions where that has not been the
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The guidelines explain how the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) applies to transfers of personal information to a third party, including a third party operating outside of Canada, for processing.

These guidelines are important because, as the OPC notes:

PIPEDA does not prohibit organizations in Canada from transferring personal information to an organization in another jurisdiction for processing. However, under PIPEDA, organizations are held accountable for the protection of personal information transfers under each individual outsourcing arrangement.